Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-20

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nelp. But if any Of YOU belong to that
miscreant class OF people who, without
ny financial ability, organize them
selves into what they call Il
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
with a pretended capital of two hundred
thousand dollars or three hundred
thousand dollars, then vote yourself
into the lucrative position, and then
tlke all the premiums for yourself, and
then ut the arproach Of the state
superintendent, drop al mo the hands
Of those life insurance uudertakers
whose business it is TO gather up he
remains of defuuct organizations and
pury them in their " vau't-thcn, l
say, YOU had better get Il OF the busi-
ness. and disgorge IL. widows houses
YOU have swallowed. Bat my word is
TO Ill those who are lcgitjmately N
| gagged in the business; You ought 10
ne better than other msn. not only be-
cause of the responsibilities that rest
apon you, but because the truth is ever
confronting you that your stay on earth
$ uncertain. and your life a matter of
4 few days or years. Do not those
BLACK-EDGED LETTERS
that come into your Office make you
thinkp Does not the doctors certiii-
cate on the death claim give yon a
thrill? Your periodicals, your adver-
tisements, and even the photography OF
your policies warn you that you are
mortal. According to your own show
ing the chances that you will die this
year are at least two per cent. Are
yeu prepared for the tremendous ext
gency? The most condemned man in
the Judgment day viii be the unpre-
pared life insurance man. for the SIM
pie reason that his whole business was
connected with human exit. and he cam
not say: Il dad not think His
whole business was to think on that
one thing. o. my brother. get insured
for eternity. In consideration of what
Christ has done in your behalf. have
the indenture this day made out, signed
and sealed with the red scGl OF the
cross.
But | have words Of encouragement
and comfort for those Of my hearers
who are engaged in the life insurance
business. You are ordained by God to
stand between us and the most
RAGING ELEMENT
of nature. We are indebted to YOU for
what the National Board Of Under
writer's and the Convention Of Chiefs
Of the FIRE Department have Effected
through your suggestions, and through
? your encouragement. We are indebted
to you for what you have effected in
, the construction of buildings, and in
] the change IN the habits of u citi-
: zens; SO hat by scientific principles
orderly companies cXtinguish the fire,
. instead of the old-time riots which
used to extinguish the citizens! And
: we are Indebted for the req cal Of an.
Just laws-for the battle you hav,
: waged against incondiarism and arson
d for the fatal blow you have given &c
) the theory that corporations have nc
souls, by the cheerfulness and prompt
2 itude with which you have met losses
from which YOU might have escaped
through the technicality OF the law.
u do not know any class OF men in GU
midst more heightened and worthy o
n confidence han these men, and yet
n have sometimes feared that while youl
chief business is to calculate abou
5 losses on earthly property, You nigh
g without sufficient thought 90 into tina
which, in regard to your soul, in you,
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ards" extra hazards" .'specia
hazards" An unforgivcn sin in tn,
soul is more iptlammablc and cxplosiv,
u than camphine or nitro-g'ycerine
However the rates may bc-yea, though
n the wlole earth We're paid down Il
4 you in one solid prcmium-you cauno
afford to lose your soul. DO rot tax
that risk least it be said hereafter tina
% while in this world you had keen bu,i
a ness faculty, when you went out OF tn
. world you went out
INCREASINGLY INSoLvENT.
; The scientific Hitchcocks, and Sill
, mans, and Mltchells, of the world hav'
4 united with the sacred writer's to IN k,
us believe that there is coming n con
hagration, to sweep across the earth
compared with which that Of Chicago
IN 1871, and that Of Boston in 1872
and that of New York in 1885. wer,
: mere nothing. Brooklyn on fire! New
!, York on FIRE! Charleston on fire! Str
! Francisco on fire' Canton on fire! St
Petersburg on fire. Paris on fire
: London on fire! the Andes on fire! thu
Appcnines on fire! the Himtlayas OF
f, tire! What will be peculiar about the
day will be that the water with which
we put out great fires will itself take
flame; and the Mississippi, and The
Ono, ard the St. Lawrence, and LAX,
erie, and the Atlantic and the Paciii,
, oceans, and tumbling Niagara. shal
with red tongues lick the heavens. The
Geological heats of the centre Of thu
world will urn out toward the circum
'erence. and the heats of the outsjd'
= aill burn down from the circumference,
to the center, and this world will be
y come not only according To the Bible
y but according TO science, q living Goa
the
WING COAL
d tfterward whitening into ashes, tn